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NEWS OF THE WEEK
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la a Condensed Form for Our
u Bnsy Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
A massacre of Jews is expected in
Warsaw, Russia.
A cave-in at Clincaport, Va, en
tombed 50 miners.
Boosevelt is said to have declared
for Canon for president.
Labor leaderB have declared war on
Cannon'B candidacy lor re-election to
congresf.
Portland police are looking for Paul
StenBland, president of the wrecked
Chicago bank.
The president has appointed James
S. Harlan, of Chicago, a member of the
Interstate Commerce commission.
During the fiecal year jnst ended our
exports to Porto Rico, Hawaii and
Alaska increased about 20 per cent.
Buseian terrorists continue the
slaughter of police. ' The government
has begun wholesale arrests and exile.
A tidal wave is reported from the
Hawaiian islands. ' The general height
was five feet and but little damage was
done.
The Valparaiso earthquake will com
plete the bankruptcy of many insurance
companies which' lost heavily in San
Francisco. . . ' -
The First National bank of ChelBea,
Mages., has been closed by the bank
examiner because too much money was
loaned to its president..
The murder of policemen in Poland
continues.
Japanese goods have supplanted all
others in Corea.
Many officers are involved in a navy
scandal at San Francisco.
Another Chicago bank has failed as a
result of Stensland'e crimes.
Ex-United States Senator Turner,' of
Washington, is mentioned as Bryan's
running mate.
France has resolved to make no con
cessions to the Catholics and may con
fiscate churches. '
A member of the late Bussian parlia
ment has been arrested as a leader of
agrarian disorders.
B. B. Brown, of Zanesville, Obi),
has been elected commander-in-chief of
the National G. A. B.
Diego Mendoza, ex-Colombian minis
ter to the United States, declare that
President Reyes is a traitor.
A second grand jury has been called
at Chiago to inquire into recent rebates
gfiven the Standard Oil company.
The Milwaukee Avenue State bank,
of Chicago, has delcaraed a 20 per cent
dividend for depositors. More will be
paid later.
Secretary Boot has arrived at Buenas
Ayres.
Mad Mullah has received a disastrous
defeat.
Negotiations looking to a Busso Jap
anese fishing treaty have been com
menced. It is likely that the War department
will concentrate all colored troops at
one post.
Many Republican state 'conventions
are declaring in favor of Roosevelt for
a third term.
Peasants in Southern Russia are rav
aging the country and the troops refuse
to fire on them., .
A plot to assassinate the president ot
Cuba was discovered just in time to
frustrate the plana.
The powers are expected to make
strong representations to Greece. The
trouble is over the barbarous acts of
Greek marauders in Macedona.
Government inquiry into the rela
tions between the railroads entering
Toledo, Ohio, and the ice trust show
the two to be working hand in hand. .
A warrant has been issued for the ar
rest of W, B. Vice, formerly coast pas
senger agent of the Union Pacific. Vice
, is ' charged with embezzling f 10,000
- three years ago. He had been in hid
' ing until the San Francisco disaster of
' April. 18, when he . reappeared, believ
ing the papers incriminating him had
been destroyed. , ;
The National. G. A B. is in conven
tiori' at Minneapolis; ' , .f
The sultan of Turkey has rewarded
hia bhysicinn by elevating him to . the
rank, of general. ,
With.the exception of St. Petersburg,
Russia, arid Borne, Italy, Chicago leads
th world in crimed
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Russian Terrorists Wreak Vengeance
on Hated Police. ""I
St. Petersburg, Aug. 15. Advices
received from Libau state that the riot
ous derdbhatratiohB that began there
Saturday night still continue and that
the'Hooligan element absolutely holds
sway in the city, the police being pow
erless to check it. Law abiding citizenB
are unable to traverse the streets and a
reign of robbery and rapine is in pro
gress that will not be checked until
troops are sent to aid the police.
So far all appeals to the government
at St. Petersburg have fallen appar
ently upon deaf ears and this fact haa
emboldened the disturbing element to
add murder to its other crimes. - Five
storekeepers have been murdered dur
ing the past 12 hours and hundreds, of
shops have been looted. The rioters
raided the alcohol depot,, and after
filling themselves up on the fiery fluid,
paraded the streets, shouting threats
against the Jews and factory owners
and storekeepers.
Three police officers have been, mur
dered since Tuesday morning; the Ter
rorists apparently having seized upon
the confusion as offering a magnificent
opportunity to eliminate " the hated
members of the police who have been
active in working against them.' .
There is one regiment of infantry in
the local barracks at Libau, but it is
mutinous and the - officers some -days
ago took from the men all their am
munition, as it was feared that they in
tended to mutiny.
FIRST INSURANCE TRIAL.
Test Case Upon Earthquake Clause
Set for Trial.
San Francisco, Aug. 15. The first of
the insurance cases involving the earth
quake clause was Bet for trial today by
Superior Judge Hebbard. The case is
that of the Rosenthal Shoe company
against the Williamsburg City Fire In
surance company. The attorney for
the insurance people asked that the
case be not set for trial" until opportu
nity could be given the judges mutual
ly to arrange with the insurance com
panies for a test case. He said that
the insurance companies would demand
a jury trial in each case, and unless
proper arrangements were made for a
test case the courts would be occupied
for years in hearing insurance litiga
tion. The attorney for the plaintiff declar
ed that there were points of fact in this
connection that could not be settled by
a test case. The court then asked the
insurance attorney if he waived a jury
trial, and was answered, "No." The
judge then asked, "Do yon demand a
jury trial?" but could not get a direct
answer.
The attorney for the shoe company
then announced that to Bave time he
would formally demand a jury trial.
The case was Bet for August 27.
HAD PREPARED FOR FLIGHT.
Stensland Took House Furnishings
and a Woman With Him.
Chicago, Aug. 15. Testimony indi
cating that extensive preparations for
flight were made by Paul Stensland,
president of the Milwaukee Avenue
State bank, and that a woman entered
into these preparations, were secured
by Assistant State's Attorney Oleen to
day, through the cross examination of
Miss Allen McCracken, housekeeper for
StenBland. It was learned that Stens
land took with him in trunks and boxes
sheets and other bedding, towels, win
dow curtains, carpets, rugs and a silver
dinner set. Some of this is said to
have been traced toBaraboo, Wisconsin.
The large trunk that is being traced
IB said to be three feet high and bound
with iron. The box traced to Wiscon
sin weighed S75 pounds when it was
placed on an express wagon at the
Stensland home on the day of the
flight. Telegrams have been Bent all
over the world to trainmen to look for
the big trunk.
Another warrant charging Cashier
Hering with forging a note for $10,000
in the name of Marius S. Kirby was is
sued today.
Car Service Stopped.
New York, Aug. 15. Following the
arrest tonight of three division inspec
tors of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company on charges of assault, the
company shut off entirely all of its
surface lines leading to Coney island,
taking the position that this was the
only way to stop the rioting which has
been in progress since Sunday morning
at the points where a cecond fare was
demanded by the company's employes.
The elevated and express trains to the
seashore were - augmented.- The in
spectors were released on bail.
Freight Tunnels Under Chicago. '
i Chicago, Aug. 15. The freight bores
of the Illinois Tunnel company will
carry merchandise of all kinds in car
load lots for thecal timfe today. This
movement wiUjrnark.tha practical.Qom
pletion of the Illinois tunnel company's
system of underground freight railroadB,
construction of which was begun fiv.
years ago, and which has cost, its own
I era abont 130.000.000
BIG CITY IN RUINS
Earthquake at Valparaiso, Chile,
Is Followed by Fire.
HUNDREDS CRUSHED TO DEATH
Great Port and Surrounding Country
Stricken Throngs of Homeless
Crazed by Calamity.
New York, Aug. 18. The Herald to
day prints the fqllowing:
! Valparaiso, Chili, Friday. Without
the slightest tremor of warning an
earthquake visited this city at 8 o'clock
last night, bringing death to hundreds
of persons and leaving many hundreds
more imprisonsd in the ruinB, many
of whom were burned to death before
aid could reach them. Fire started im
mediately after the first shock and
every branch of the city's service was
paralyzed. Panic and consternation in
describable followed, and those who
escaped death and injury became fren
zied with fear and could render little
assistance to the victims.
The business section of the city is al
most entirely destroyed, and fires are
still raging. We are suffering here a
repetition of the horrors of San Fran
cisco. -
Ab night comes on, the city is every
where aglow with unobstructed fires,
and cloods of choking smoke and vapor
settle into the streets and houses, where
throngs of homeless ones are wander
ing about, crazed by the awful calamity,
It is almost impossible to ascertain
how wide an area of country the visita
tion has laid waBte. Nothing has been
heard from Santiago, the capital city
of Chile, and it is feared that the fate
of that city is as bad or worse than that
of Valparaiso.
Telegraphic communication is cut off
in all directions, and every one here is
too much depressed by the calamity at
home to Beek information of other
places. No trains bave arrived or left
here since the first shock came, as all
of the railroad tunnels are filled and
miles of track on the surface are twist
ed and rendened useless. It is only
known from general accounts that depth
and destruction are on all sides.
There were two distinct and terriffic
shocks, the second one following almost
instantly after the first and completing
the work of destruction. The day had
been unusually calm and pleasant.
Many landnlides have occurred around
the city and scores of lives have been
lost. At present it is impossible to
state the number of dead in the entire
city, hut it is believed that there are
several hundred, many ef whom are
still in the ruins. It. has laid waste
the best part of the city, and has doubt
less put Chile back many years in the
scale of civilization.
NO UNION PACIFIC DIVIDEND.
Has Surplus of Over $25,000,000,
Southern Pacific $19,000,000.
New York, Aug. 18. At the conclu
sion of a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Union Pacific railroad
here today etatementn was given that
no announcement would be made re
garding a dividend. The committee's
estimate of the income of the road for
the year ending June 30 showed gross
receipts from transportation $67,281,
542, inoease $7,956,593 over 1905;
expenses and taxes, $36,963,773, in
crease $5,101,059; surplus available
for dividend, $2,201,844, increase $6,
416,337. The balance after payment
of dividends on the preferred stock was
$25,219,812. The sum for expenses
includes $2,206,619 for betterments,
equipment and repairs.
The estimated income ot the boutn
em Pacific company shows: Gross re
ceipts from transportation, $105,619,
110, increase $7,478,531; expenses and
taxea. $70,586,649, increase $4,993,-
029; surplus, $21,560,712, increase
$9,128,740. After payment of ft dm
dend of 7 per cent on the preferred
stock, the balance was $18,790,833.
The snm of $2,117,286 was credited for
betterments and equipment.
Santa Fe Buys Tie Farm.
. Ran Tlion Pal.. Ana. 18 Bv A deal
v-fc t v n
closed todav the Santa Fe railroad be
comes the owner of the famous Ban
Diecnitn run ph. last north of the city,
nnmnriaina B ARi) acres of land. The
price paid was $100,000. The ranch is
to be used to raise eucalyptus trees for
ties for the future use the road. It is
DronnflBd tn nlant about 600 acres each
year, and as the trees are quick growers
it is figured that in zu years tne roau
will Via ahlo tn harvest six to eiaht ties
to a tree and keep up the harvest there
after continually. " ' v. '
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. Sulta's Thank Offering, ,
Constantinople', Aug. 1$. The sultan
bs o.-dered the release of all . tne pris
oners in the empire who have complet
ed two-thirds of their, sentences, -as t
mar,k of gratification for the recovery
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CASHIER BACKED BOOKIES.
Hering Represented Himself Wealthy
j Man Seeking "Suckers." I
Chicaco, Aug. 17. Absolute proof
that Henry Hering, cashier of the
wrecked Milwaukee Avenue State bank,
was financial backer of a booktriaking
syndicate which laid odds on horse
races, was brought to light late today,
when Inspector Shippy found a check
made payable to Harry M. Smith, who
for years ran the Buffet at 56 South
State street, and whose place was dosed
this spring, because of running a hand
book, that handbook being none other
than that run by the syndicate headed
by Hering, but whose name never ap
peared as connected with it until to
day. Other men in the syndicate were
Charles Francis, Thomas Rowe, Walter
Frantzen, Harry Thorpe and Henry
Troy.
All these men were interviewed by
the inspector and all admitted that
they were connected with the book, but
denied that they knew Hering was con
nected with any bank, and said that he
represented that he was a wealthy
man, and that he wanted to increase
his wealth by separating "a few suck
ers from their loose change."
BUYS ST. PAUL SYSTEM.
Harriman Secures Railroad Coveted
by James J. Hill.
New York, Aug. 17. It can be au
thoritatively Btated that control of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail
road has passed into the hands of E.
H. Harriman, via the Southern Pacific
Railroad company, which is controlled
by the Union Pacific Railroad com
pany, the main Harriman concern. A
rumor to the effect that Harriman
sought to own the St. Paul property
has been heard on various occasions of
late, but not until today could it be
learned from a competent authority
that there was good foundatioa for the
report.
As a railroad deal this purchase of
the St. Paul by Harriman is more re
markable than the coup by which he
secured the Illinois Central control
nearly a year ago. Harriman had for
years been an important factor in the
Illinois Central management, but until
now he has never been mentioned in
connection with St. Paul.
The present deal is also interesting
from the fact that in 1900 James J.
Hill, Harriman's arch enemy in the
railroad arena, made strenuous efforts
to purchase the St. Paul, but was re
fused control by tbe same Standard Oil
interests which with willingness turned
the property over to Harriman.
PEOPLE GROW CALLOUS.
Eye Witness Describes Warsaw After
. Outbreak of Terrorists.
London, Aug. 17. The Tribune's
Warsaw correspondent telegraphs a de
scription of the scenes witnessed by
him after the disturbances Wednesday.
"The hospital surgeons, fatigued by
their labors," he says, "were unable
to attend to cases, and wounds regarded
as fatal were left to take their course.
"The scenes in the morgues were
horrible. In one I counted 32 civilian
bodies, all dirty and dressed as they
fell.
"The people have grown callous
with too much death. I beard a young
girl laugh heartily at the Bight of a
woman whose brain-pan had been torn
off by a bomb. ,
"In one hospital I saw a youth who,
when bayoneted yesterday, feigned
death. The soldiers trod over him and
their heavy boots crushed his fingers
to a pulp, but he successfully stood the
ordeal. He was carried to tbe morgue,
when it was discovered he was alive
He is now progressing favorably.
"Last night resulted in an orgie of
blood in the Jewish quarter. The num
ber of persons clubbed or bayoneted ex
ceeds three hundred.
"The morgues are crowded with
dead. The bodies were arrayed in
rows, the clothes dirty with the filtn
of the streets where they fell. No
effort was made to do more than pile
the corpses in morgues, and very little
has been done towards indentifying
them. Relatives and friends of those
who lost their lives are fearful of
brutal treatment at tbe hauda of tbe
authorities if they visit the morgues."
Oldest Fxed Date in History.
Chicago, Aug. 17. Professor James
H. Breadated haa announced in an
article in the Biblical World that the
"oldest fixed date in history" is. 4241
B. C. " In that year the calendar was
established, the year beginning on
what would now be July 19. Conse
quently the calendar now in nae waa
6,147 years oid last month. The pro
fessor arrived at these conclusions dur
ing his long exploration trip in the
Nile valley, when he compared the as
tronomical data in the old and middle
kingdoms of Egypt. ,'"
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Seized at Prison Door.
New York, Aug. 17. Charles C.
Browne, the convicted Fedeial silk ex
aminer, who waa ordered released from
the state prison at Sing Sing Tuesday
on a writ of habeas corpus, issued by
Judgg Jiough.t'of, the United States
Circuit' court, was . rearrested as he
stepped from the prison today and ar
rajgned before Judge Hough.
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SLAUGHTER POLICE
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Reds Throughout Poland Start
v Attack on Enemies.
WARSAW IS CENTER OF TROUBLE
Slaughter In Polish Capital Calls Forth .
Effective Volleys Police Meet
Simultaneous Assaults.
St. Petersburg, Aug. ' 16. Acting
apparently with a definite plan and av
a signal the terrorists and revolution
ists today inaugurated a carnival of
murderous attacks with bombs and re
volvers on the police and troops in va
rious cities in Poland, echoes of which
are heard from Samara, Ufa, Yalta,
Kiev and even (ar away Chita, where
the acting chief of police was slain al
most on his own doorstep.
The revolutionist campaign flamed
out with special virulence at Warsaw,
where over a score were killed in the
atieets, and many more weie wounded.
Among the killed, according to the lat
est official advices, were two sergeants
of police, eight patrolmen, three gen
darmes, five soldiers, a Hebrew merch
ant and a woman. The returns are not
all in.
Policemen and soldiers were shot
down like rabbits in tho streets. Their
assailants, who traveled in small bands,
almost all escaped among the terrorized
but sympathetic populace. The only
considerable capture was a band of
three men who had invaded a grog
shop and killed a soldier. These were
taken by a passing patrol.
Bombs were employed in an attack
on the police station at Warsaw, where
a sergeant, two patrolmen and a sol
dier were wounded.
Other Polish cities singled out by the
terrorists were Lodz, where six sol
diers, three patrolmen and the wife of
a police captain were wounded by the
explosion of bombs in the police station
and two soldiers and two terrorists
killed in the streets; Radom, where a
bomb was thrown in the police station,
killing the wife and child of the police
captain; Votslavsk, where a captain
was slain, and Plock, where at a given
signal the policemen on all the posts
were simultaneously attacked and sev
eral of them wonnded.
On account of tbe agrarian disorders,
especially several attacks on post trains,
the railway between Samara and Zla
toust, which was already carrying
guards on all its trains, was today
placed under martial law. Two of
these attacka occurred today near Ufa,
revolutionists in each case flagging the
train, bursting open the doors of the
cars with bombs and rifling the leg
istered pouches. The booty in one case
amounted to $15,000; in the other case
the amount is not known.
FIRST PURCHASE OF SILVER.
Shaw Buys 60,000 Ounces at 66.62
Cents an Ounce.
Washington, Aug. 16. Pursuant to
the announcement of the secretary oi
the treasurer that he desired to receive
tenders of silver yesterday, four bids
were made to Director Roberts of the
mint.
The bids were opened yesterday after
noon, and after being submitted to
Socretary Shaw, it was announced that
the government had purchased 50,000
ounces of silver, 999 fine, at 66.62
cents an ounce.
It is not the custom to announce the
name of the individual or corporation
through whom the silver 1b obtained.
It is expected the government will re
quire from 50,000 to 100,000 ounces of
silver a week for an indefinite time. It
is the purpose, therefore, of Secretary
Shaw and Director Roberts to receive
bids Wednesday oi each week until
further notice.
Bodies Hurled a Mile. j( 1
El Paso, Tex., Aug. 16. It is report- ,!
ed here that between 30 and 50 Mexican
laborers and bystanders were killed this ' ,
afternoon at 4:90 in Chihuaha, Mexico,; ,
by the explosion, of a carload of dyna
mite on the Mexican Central railroad.
The car was being transferred for trans
portation to the Robinson mine at Santa
Fulalia. Bodies and pieces of human
flesh were hurled into the air and pick
ed up a mile distant. Windows weie
broken in almost every house in town
and many walls were cracked. Several
Americans are reported ikilled,.
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Gives Up Polar' Trip.
London, Aug. 16. A dispatch from
Christiania to the Daily Mail says that
private letters received thee from
Spitzbergen state that owing to the late
ness of the season . Walter Wellman,
Chief 6t ' the Chicago, Record-Herald
Arctic expedition, ' has abandoned the
project of ballooning to the north pole
this year.
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